[Leica] First pictures from my new Q2

[Mark Rabiner]

When I first heard about digital cropping on the LUG I thought it sounded really dumb the last thing I'd ever use. Throwing away pixels you've paid to get.  Why not just crop the pictures anyway you want it later I thought to myself.  Then my next camera had the feature and I gleefully ignored it. Till one day I tried it out.
Great thing!
Gives you frame lines to see around so you can think you're shooting with a Leica.
And not the smaller file space is not an issue. Files cost micro pennies to store.
But if the building is off in the distance and I'm shooting with a wide I end up with a much tighter image on a file which is fine pixels wise... more than my previous camera had to start with. Something like looks viable when you see it later.

It's just with my newer D500 shooting 1.5 crop  to begin with to digital crop means you're shooting, 4/3's "the horror"
Yet I ended up doing that too and its fine. In a pinch.
It's just that the pixels are there and If I am printing a 17x22 its going to be a bit of a stretch but I'm thinking doable.
The new super high rez cameras like the Nikon D850 have all kinds of size crop options and various shaped formats as well like I think even squares.  I'd kill to shoot squares with a Nikon.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 9/21/19, 7:22 PM, "LUG on behalf of Brian Reid" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:

    The Q2 is a very nice camera, but it has too many options. Basically 
    I've been trying to turn it into an M as much as I can. It doesn't just 
    have autofocus, it has 5 or 6 kinds of autofocus, including face 
    recognition. And then you have to decide whether you want it to focus 
    once, when you push the button halfway down, or whether you want it to 
    do focus tracking. I'm currently trying to figure out if I can have 
    separate control over focus lock and exposure lock (right now pressing 
    the shutter button halfway down locks both of them, and I don't always 
    want to have focus and exposure on the same spot).
    
    The smartphone app that works with it, "Leica Fotos", is awful beyond 
    comprehension. But you can use it, slowly and clumsily, to suck pictures 
    out of the camera into a smartphone. That's probably better than having 
    the camera itself know how to upload things to the web.
    
    It has a world-class lens, a state-of-the-art sensor, and about 100 
    different configuration parameters. The default configuration seems to 
    be set for people who take different kinds of pictures than I do. Some 
    of them are about video, which I don't care about, and some of them 
    control what sort of JPEGs it makes (which I almost don't care about).
    
    But its 47 megapixel sensor means you can crop very very tightly and 
    still have more pixels remaining in the image than my M9 sensor could 
    give me. It has what they call "digital zoom", but it's basically just a 
    viewfinder trick, and I haven't been able to figure out any reason why I 
    should use it.
    
    Moving forward I will post more pictures of my friends and family taken 
    with the Q2, and you can decide for yourself whether it can be coaxed 
    into doing righteous things.
    
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